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- I cannot stay silent. While many will be irritated to hear a pope return to the topic, I cannot stay silent over 30 to 40 million unborn lives cast aside every year through abortion.
- Talk to the scientists. It should be a scientific question in which it is decided whether or not there is life. The issue of abortion is not primarily a religious issue, but rather a human one – an issue of human ethics that comes before any particular religious creed.
- Not a religious issue. Is it fair to eliminate a human life in order to solve a problem? The answer to which is: no. Second question: Is it fair to pay a sniper to solve a problem?
- Sing what you didn’t sing. [T]he problem is not in giving forgiveness, the problem is in accompanying a woman who has come to the realization she has had an abortion. …
1 day ago · Pope Francis with members of “Project Hope,” a program of accompaniment for the spiritual and emotional healing of women and men who suffer the consequences of having chosen abortion, on Oct ...
Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the "Advocate of Christian Memory," a pope must take up the mantle of defending the culture of life - a defense the Early Church held against the pagans of Rome.
- The Bible teaches that human life is different from other types of life, because human beings are made in the very image of God. The accounts of the creation of man and woman in Genesis (Gen.
- The Bible teaches that children are a blessing. God commanded our first parents to "Be fertile and multiply" (Gen.1:28). Why? God Himself is fertile. Love always overflows into life.
- The Bible teaches that the child in the womb is truly a human child, who even has a relationship with the Lord. The phrase "conceived and bore" is used repeatedly (see Gen.
- Scripture repeatedly condemns the killing of the innocent. This flows from everything that has been seen so far. God's own finger writes in stone the commandment, "Thou shalt not kill," (Ex.20:13, Deut.
At the very least, early abortion was seen as attacking a being with a human destiny, being prepared by God to receive an immortal soul (cf. Jeremiah 1:5: "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you").
The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, reaches out lovingly and compassionately to women who have had an abortion in his encyclical letter Evangelium Vitae (EV), the Gospel of Life. While condemning abortion as "an unspeakable crime," he acknowledges that "the decision to have an abortion is often tragic and painful for the mother..."
ANSWERING THE THEOLOGICAL CASE FOR ABORTION RIGHTS. I. Why Scripture's alleged silence cannot be used to justify abortion. II. The intent of the Bible writers. III. Why Exodus 21 and other passages cannot justify abortion. IV. The Church's historical position on abortion.
